While not directly referencing HILDA, Francis Sullivan of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council raised important issues to do with inequality. Then, not unconnected with the HILDA work – because the level of our own wealth and income flows through to our capacity to share it around – was a piece from John Thwaites of Monash University on Australia’s performance on progress towards world Sustainable Development Goals – we come in 20th, below 15 European countries, Iceland, Canada, Japan and Singapore, but above New Zealand and the United States.